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Residents who live near Janesville’s Sandhill Drive and Wright Road might want to check in to a meeting Thursday to learn about a 204-unit apartment complex that’s being proposed just up the street.
The city has announced a developer is hosting a neighborhood meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 3001 N. Wright Road.
The church is a stone’s throw from the proposed site of a 204-unit apartment complex planned.
A mailer sent to neighbors gives details about the proposed multifamily apartments at 3301 Sandhill Drive, a new spur of Sandhill Drive planned west of Wright Road.
The city has earmarked the area near Wright Road for future mixed housing and commercial use — with a new extension of Sandhill Drive that’s aimed at better connecting northeast-side residential subdivisions with the Deerfield Drive and Pine Tree Plaza shopping corridor.
The privately-owned sites, a stretch of farm fields between Wright Road and Deerfield Drive, drew interest by developers who initially aim to build multifamily apartments along Sandhill, but most of those earlier concepts have ranged around 40 units, with possible additions later.
The latest plan by Angus-Young and Ramsey is a new concept, and it’s a significantly larger-scale apartment development than the city has previously seen proposed along the same spur.
A rendering on the mailer shows the latest proposed apartments would be laid out in four buildings around a circular courtyard, with a fitness and amenity building — all set just south of the future spur of Sandhill.
The complex would be built between the Pine Tree Plaza shopping plaza and the Agrace hospice center.
The city has said housing developed along the new spur of Sandhill would transition from multifamily housing along Sandhill, to duplexes and single-family homes farther north.
The plan being talked about Thursday puts apartments farther south than earlier concepts by another developer.
